Immigration Enforcement Funding
House Set to Fund Trump's Immigration Enforcement Until 2029 with $70 Billion Bill
The House of Representatives is set to pass a $69.5 billion immigration enforcement bill that would fund President Trump's deportation agenda through the end of his term in 2029. The bill — called the Secure America Act — gives $38.5 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and $22.6 billion to the Border Patrol, according to AP.
The Senate passed the bill 52–47 on June 5, along party lines. It comes on top of roughly $140 billion Congress already gave to ICE and the Border Patrol last year. If signed into law, it would be the second massive funding surge for Trump's immigration crackdown in less than two years, according to Newsday.
A 'Firewall' to Outlast Congressional Gridlock
Unlike normal annual budgets, this bill front-loads three full years of funding. That means ICE and Customs and Border Protection stay funded through September 30, 2029 — no matter what Congress does next. The goal is to protect Trump's deportation operations from future government shutdowns, AP reported.
That threat is real. A DHS shutdown that began February 14, 2026 lasted over 100 days after Democrats demanded oversight and body cameras for ICE and Border Patrol agents. The Cato Institute noted an uncomfortable irony: funds from the 2025 spending bill let ICE keep operating the whole time, completely unaffected, according to Newsday.
$260 Billion and a Goal of 1 Million Deportations a Year
ICE officially set a target of 1 million deportations per year in its FY 2026 budget, according to News4Jax. The current pace is roughly 460,000 removals per year. Detention capacity has already grown from about 34,000 beds to 99,000 beds to handle the scale-up.
House Appropriations Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro said Congress has now given DHS roughly $260 billion in Trump's first two years. She called the new bill a "slush fund for ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight." Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back, saying the funding is "long overdue," according to WSLS.
Two Toxic Provisions Dropped to Save the Bill
To get enough votes, the White House had to cut two controversial items. The first was a $1.8 billion fund to compensate Trump allies who claimed they were unfairly prosecuted. A federal judge had already blocked it as potentially illegal. The second was a $1 billion request to build a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom, according to ClickOnDetroit.
Border Czar Tom Homan promised the money would keep operations running without pause. "We're going to continue to arrest people, we're going to continue to detain people, and we're going to keep deporting people," he said, according to Click Orlando.
Who Gets Targeted — and Who Is Watching
The bill funds enforcement against people whose Temporary Protected Status or humanitarian parole was recently revoked by DHS. That means some people who were legally in the U.S. are now classified as deportable. Green card approvals have reportedly been cut by 50% to help hit the deportation quota, according to Newsday.
The ACLU warned that the bill includes no requirements for body cameras or judicial warrants, raising the risk of constitutional violations. New DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, confirmed March 23, has pledged to end what he calls "micromanagement" of his agents, according to WSLS.
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